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Flowing Park Rock Climbing

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Areas in Flowing Park

Bionut Wall 12 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 14 / 14

Prow, The 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1

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Elevation:	10,113 ft	3,082 m
GPS:	38.95315, -108.09745 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Access Issue: Road closures M-Th as of 8/31/18 Details

As of 8/31/18, the road into Flowing Park Res. is closed Mon-Thur 8 am to 4 pm for road work.

Description

Flowing Park is a mostly southeast-facing wall of mostly solid basalt typical of the mesa. It averages around 50ish feet tall, protects with gear and bolts, and has a short approach. Most climbs coming in at somewhere around the 5.10 mark. The scramble to access the bottom of the wall is doable for rock dogs and tough kids, but they may need a hand at a spot or two. This area is popular with elk hunters who glass the clearings below in the fall, and as such trail markers often disappear.

Getting There

Turn off of Lands End Road (CR 100) onto the Flowing Park Road (CR 109). This can be done by driving up Lands End Road from US Highway 50 or by taking US Highway 65 from I-70 or Delta. If you are coming from Grand Junction, going I-70 to CO 65 by Powderhorn is faster. Once on Flowing Park Road, you will take it all the way to the reservoir where it dead ends.

From the parking there, walk south back across the cattleguard to the Mesa Top Trail (714). This trail begins on the opposite side of the road as the reservoir and just twenty or so feet from the cattleguard. Take this trail for about five minutes until you come to a fire pit on the trail. A faint trail will break off towards the cliff to your right just a few paces afterwards. This hunter's trail ends at a cliffout providing a superb vantage from which to view everything that lies south of Grand Mesa. A couple more paces to the right you will find a loose weakness in the cliff that leads you to the base of the right side of the main wall. Follow along the base of the wall (moving to climber's left or west), and you will begin to see bolts as the wall grows. Alternately you can continue along the top of the cliff to an idyllic aspen grove and rap from the top building an anchor off a few sturdy trees.